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04 October 2007
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02:21 <****> Khisanth, Ahh.
02:22 <****> not_benh, http://search.cpan.org/~dcantrell/Data-Compare-0.17/lib/Data/Compare.pm perhaps?
02:22 <****> apeiron: should work. thanks
02:22 <****> not_benh, First thing found in a search for 'data compare' on s.c.o
02:23 <****> not_benh, My question to you: why not try that yourself? :)
02:24 <****> SCO?!
02:24 * Khisanth stabs apeiron
02:24 <****> Hmmm how much has perl changed syntactically in the last 10 years? I picked up a "Programming Perl" book off a friend that was published in '96. Is that terribly out of date and all?
02:24 <****> there is also Algorithm::Diff
02:24 * apeiron takes cover in his Linux-zealout-immune armour.
02:24 <****> Khisanth, search.cpan.org silly
02:24 * Khisanth sends marines after apeiron
02:25 <****> zbrown: With edition is it?
02:25 <****> zbrown, My third edition was published in 2000.
02:25 <****> platypus: its 2nd edition
02:26 <****> does it cover Perl5?
02:26 <****> yup
02:26 <****> well that is mostly ok then ...
02:26 <****> That should be ok but will miss out on alot of the newer features, however most scripts that you write based on it will work.
02:27 <****> but Programming Perl is like taking all the perldocs that come with perl and printing them out anyway :)
02:27 <****> The boy camels (that is blue covered "Programming Perl" books) should work with any perl5. Just use the perldocs to cover the features not included in your book.
02:28 <****> ok thanks :)
02:28 <****> zbrown, Take a look at perl56delta and perl58delta for what you're missing in that book vs. a recent perl.
02:28 <****> ah ok
02:28 * zbrown now understands though why people think perl encourages bad practices :-D
02:29 * apeiron sighs.
02:29 <****> zbrown: How so?
02:29 * platypus thinks that perl encourages good practices.
02:29 <****> platypus, If you ask for it.
02:29 <****> platypus: Well I don't think it does, but I've noticed in what I've played with that its very very flexible
02:29 <****> which is sometimes bad, either way I like it :)
02:30 <****> So?
02:30 <****> and now you just made yourself look like a fool to the whole channel!
02:30 <****> Err, what's the vim command to show line numbers?
02:30 <****> Khisanth, Indeed.
02:30 <****> Khisanth: I never said I wasn't one.
02:30 <****> jagerman, :set number
02:30 <****> How can you denote the root path with Path::Class?
02:30 <****> apeiron: Ah, right, thanks.
02:30 <****> Not being able to behave in a bad mannor is not behaving good. Its only when one has freedom does ones morallity show.
02:30 <****> like "/" or "\" but in a platform-independent way
02:30 <****> if your code is sloppy it's YOUr fault
02:31 <****> Khisanth: indeed, but my code isn't sloppy so its not a problem for me, I just understand now why other people I've encountered have bashed it
02:32 <****> Other people are silly. :)
02:32 <****> And should be told that they should bash C, C++, and any other "power tool" similarly.
02:32 <****> Hell, I don't see the Perl haters saying that about their precious Linux.
02:33 <****> (which they use for the same reason that they bash perl, mind)
02:33 <****> apeiron: so I've noticed
02:33 <****> linux breaks more spectacularly if you don't follow convention (even though it's convention and not exactly strict rule)
02:34 * Khisanth buries apeiron in 10 layers of cpp macros
02:34 * apeiron uses cpp -E and escapes unscathed.
02:34 <****> er, gcc -E
02:35 <****> that won't save you :)
02:35 <****> Doesn't it run the input through the preprocessor?
02:39 <****> Hmm. I could use Mercurial, but I'd almost feel dirty serving out Perl code with something written in Python... ;)
02:39 <****> well there is git :)
02:39 <****> lol
02:40 <****> git is best suited for lots and lots of patches
02:40 <****> monotone would be good though
02:40 <****> Of course, the web interface for monotone is written in Python as well. There's no escape!
02:40 <****> indeed
02:40 <****> CVS?
02:40 <****> lol
02:40 <****> or RCS
02:41 <****> reflexive: Could you use darcs and hope and pray that it doesn't get perpetually confused if you do an odd commit
02:41 <****> zbrown: Perpetually confused? Now you've got me curious.
02:42 <****> reflexive: once in a while if you do some funny business with darcs (i forget what now), usually involving push/pulls or a commit thrown in there, you'll throw darcs into a flat spin and it'll crash and burn hard
02:42 <****> Wonderful :)
02:42 <****> starts eating the cpu alive, has to do with it creating a tautology of sorts where it can't decide what to do so it just freaks out
02:46 <****> GumbyBRAIN: ROBOT CHICKEN
02:46 <****> hrm
02:47 <****> reflexive: I think you should be daring and use RCS
02:47 <****> i use cron'd tars
02:47 <****> eh thats not near as much of a pain in the ass as RCS is
02:48 <****> it is when you want a diff
02:48 <****> I guess I could just write out diffs by hand. And change my shell to /bin/sh, just because.
02:48 * zbrown uses bzr :-/
02:48 <****> lol
02:48 <****> actually I use a combo of bzr and svn for the majority of my projects except for Arch Linux PPC, which we use CVS for
02:51 * apeiron heralds opencvs.
02:52 * zbrown suspects apeiron uses openbsd
02:52 <****> zbrown, Nope. Close.
02:52 <****> freebsd?
02:52 * reflexive looks forward to seeing that released :)
02:53 <****> Indeed. Though I may as well use Open, what with me using all their programs.
02:53 <****> apeiron: as it would seem :)
02:53 * apeiron anxiously anticipates their compiler.
02:53 <****> I would use FreeBSD on my laptop but not sure vid is supported at highest resolution
02:53 <****> actually might be now what with ATI/AMD releaseing the driver
02:53 <****> oh, whoa
02:53 <****> s/anticipates/downloads/
02:54 <****> Huh, this could be worth looking at: http://news.nopcode.org/miau/pvc.cgi?prj=pvc&files=list
02:54 <****> apeiron: PCC?
02:54 <****> reflexive, INdeed.
02:54 <****> 'lo
02:54 <****> Evening, dwu.
02:55 <****> Hello, reflexive :)
02:55 <****> And the perpetually typo'ed apeiron :)
02:55 <****> HI DEE DOUBLE-YOU YOU
02:55 <****> :)
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